The scarcest resource is real, engaged synchronous meeting time, whether irl, video or audio. When you want people to actually pay attention, voluntarily set aside side-channel activity options, and do the pre-read because they are actually eager to be prepared and participating.
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A minute of such time is worth as much as the individual sum of all participants’ time value. If you and I are worth $5/minute, if we do a genuine meeting, that minute is worth $20, not $10. Meeting-coin is how real wealth is mined.
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Unfortunately it’s a currency that’s abused and debased in traditional orgs. Meeting printer go brr. People hate meetings because they’re expected to show up for meetings with no incentives to make the meetings real. Negative-sum expected value. $2 instead of $20 gdp/minute.
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Getting real meetings to work is so hard, even purely social ones meant to deliver nothing more than the pleasure of company and hanging out — meetups, dates, parties — are hard to sustain after the first curiosity-satisfying instance. Most will die by instance 3.
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In comfy orgs full of bullshit work though, futile meeting tracks run by coercion chug on as zombie meetings for months or sometimes years after everybody has kinda died inside when in the meetings. The currency mined is worth negative dollars.
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A meeting track need not pay off every time, anymore than every hash mined in a blockchain has to win a block reward. But the expect reward over a reasonable horizon has to be positive. The longer people have known/trusted each other, the longer they can go hungry between “wins”
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Now that we’re all being forced to discover true value of meetings by being forced to pay a big coordination tax, we are re-examining meetings with a very skeptical eye. A zoom call is 10x costlier psychologically than an office meeting, and 100x higher than a watercooler bump-in
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in practice, you can't make blanket statements like this about org psychology. one of the reasons meetings suck is b/c some people thrive in them and others truly do not. irl meetings tax me (and many like me) far more than zooming. multichannel messaging is the answer imo
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That’s because you’re probably not fully present in the meeting. That’s my point.
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